1. The role of Frontex in the EU border management A business insight
Netherlands-Polish Chamber of Commerce
Belgian Business Chamber
Warsaw, 7 June 2016
Dirk Vande Ryse
Frontex

2. USA 1880
By boat to the New World
Italy 2015
By boat to the Old World

3. Central Europe 1939
By train escaping Central Europe
Balkans 2015
By train to reach Central Europe

4. East Germany 1961
Crossing the Berlin Wall
Balkans 2015
Across the wire fence

5. Cuba 1959
Cuban refugees make their
way to America
Greece 2015
Conflict displaced
people arrive in Greece

6. Major causes of displacement
Social
unrest
Climate
change
War
Famine

7. European Union Member States + Schengen

8. European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union

9. Frontex Located in Warsaw, Poland Budget: €254 million in 2016
Staff: 314 in 2016

10. Today

11. Criminal networks organizing …

12. air
land
sea
Border control

13. Border surveillance

14. Situation Monitoring
Risk Analysis
Joint Operations

15. Incident reporting S1 Incident Reporting Service
The Incident Reporting Service ensures efficient data collection, verification, processing, visualization and dissemination during Frontex-coordinated Joint Operations.
It can also cover other operational activities as requested by Member States, for example Presidency operations.
The Service supports the European Situational Picture (ESP) data-compilation processes. As part of the ESP creation and maintenance, the service provides, in a fast and secure manner, the Joint Operation incident reports to the Eurosur network within the scope of Eurosur application.

16. Satellite imagery S8 Satellite Imagery Service
This service provides end users with optical satellite imagery in support of site monitoring (e.g. maritime areas, ports, coastlines or land borders) based on end user requests.
The service can also be used to validate intelligence information (e.g. arrival or departure of a boat in a port) as well as to verify the plausibility of information gathered from debriefing and other similar activities (e.g. mapping and identification of landmarks described).

17. Eastern Med land/sea border
Eastern land border
Eastern Med land/sea border
Central Med sea border
Western Balkan land border
Western Med land/sea border
Eastern land – IM (+77% than in 2014)
Eastern Med (aggregated) – (+917% than in 2014)
Central Med – (-8% than in 2014)
Western Med (sea) – (-16% than in 2014)
Western Med (land) – (+152% than in 2014)
Western Balkans – (+20% than in 2014)

19. Frontex assets at the borders: pooling resources

20. Cross-border crime

21. Frontex support: Search and Rescue

22. Frontex support upon and after disembarkation
1. Detection and interception at sea
2. Disembarkation
The support delivered by Frontex as regards the identification starts immediately when the migrants are rescued/intercepted. Each vessel deployed by FX fill a Maritime Incident Report template and send it to the ICC Rome. It contains preliminary information regarding the claimed nationalities of migrants on board and it is forwarded to the local authorities and to FX JSTs and JDTs on spot so preparatory action is taken in advance at the disembarkation places.
At disembarkation places first profiling and first debriefing activities take place.
The migrants are passing through a procedure called Pre-identification. This activity is done also with the support of FX JST. In case there are certain doubts on the nationality of the migrants they are thoroughly screened by FX GOs.
Fingerprinting activities are performed by FX GOs in order to provide additional support to ITA Polizia Stientifica according to the national legislation and in full compliance with the Handbook of COM. No forced fingerprinting is done.
In all cases the migrants who request asylum are referred to the national authorities.
4. Registration process
3. Pre-identification

23. Future outlook: new regulation
Assessment
Right to intervene?
European Border Guard Teams – 1500
Return Office
€322 million budget by 2020
1000 staff by 2020
Main novelties:
Integrated Border Management defined
Shared responsibility
European Border Guard Teams (1500)
Liaison officers in Member States
Right to intervene in Member States upon Council’s decision
Return Office, can initiate return operations
A gradual increase of the budget. €281 million in 2017, reaching €322 million in 2020 when all additional staff will be recruited.
The Agency should reach 1000 staff members by 2020.

24. Questions?